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JAVA_HOME is a system environment variable which represent JDK installation directory. When you install JDK in your machine (windows, Linux or unix) it creates a home directory and puts all its binary (bin), library(lib) and other
tools. In order to compile java program "javac" tool should be in your PATHand in order to get that in PATH
we use JAVA_HOME environment variable. Many tools like ANT and web servers like tomcat use JAVA_HOME to find java binaries. In this article we will see how to set JAVA_HOME environment variable in different operating system including Windows (windows 7, vista, xp) and Linux (Unix).
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